The Fish

I wouldn't be surprised if they go after Caicedo again.

I was just trying to come up with a change to the system to deal without Bruno. AS PER THE REQUEST OF @PaddockLad You argumentative piles of human trash.

For you, just a drink. Now go fetch me a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up

Our defence hasn't been as miserly in the last few games because of the lack of Longstaff and the diminishing performances of Bruno due to injury. Burn is being isolated and overrun. They need help, either by Longstaff's return and Bruno's recovery, or by changing things up.

Listen here, you giant furious ballbag, I obviously meant it the other way like this; Isak Wilson Willock Joelinton Almiron Targett Burn Botman Schar Trippier

Yeah, I'm not paying attention to a Leicester fan who's called in to TalkSport. Come on Wykiki, you should be better than this.

Just as an option, we could try a 5-3-2, try to replace Bruno's assurance and defensive awareness with sheer volume of effort? Targett Burn Botman Schar Trippier Willock Joelinton Almiron Isak Wilson This way you'll always have 3 central defenders, one who can step out into midfield to help, or move across to support the fullback. Whenever one of those 3 midfielders joins the attack, there are still 2 who can hang a little further back, better placed to either break up play, or provide an outball if we win the ball back? I dunno, it's difficult when Bruno + Longstaff aren't available. Miss one or the other and you can make it up in the aggregate. Both of them? Yeesh.

There's insufficient control in that midfield, the two Joe's first instinct is to attack, neither have the defensive discipline to successfully shutdown Brighton's midfield and both have a tendency to beat one man then drive forward. More often than not, that results in losing the ball or at least being dramatically out of position in the transition. I'd play Bruno against Brighton, but replace him with Longstaff in the starting line-up for Leicester. Anderson is a good option from the bench, but he's not yet ready to carry the responsibility in such an important pair of fixtures.

It's very close, if you ask me. Maddison has the benefit of Premier League experience, English, and may be cheaper.

Quick browse of their board's thread about him and the conversation appears to be trying to work out if Maddison is trying so hard because he wants them to stay up, or just that he's playing for a move.

And he's the kind of player we need. He's young, technically gifted, hard working, higher ceiling than the players we have, English (for home-grown rules) and creative as all hell. I don't subscribe to the idea that teams who've performed badly can't be cherry picked for good players. It's like JWP at Southampton, they're deservedly going down, but JWP would be a good signing for a whole stack of teams in the PL. Or Pickford from Sunderland e.g. LOL Just Kidding, Pickford is turboshit.

Yeah, Brighton is the only match I'm worried about. Only because it puts pressure on the next two fixtures. I'm entirely confident we'll beat Leicester; last home game, under the lights, they're shit. If we beat Brighton, the atmosphere against Leicester will be celebratory, if we don't beat Brighton it'll be insistent. Chelsea away on the final day, if we've already secured CL, will just be a big ol'party.

You do one then, billy big bollocks.

Lad on twitter does a good deep dive

Mad Dog however,

There is, I've asked someone on twitter to provide

Kind of expect Howe and the coaches to encourage more team bonding shit away from the training ground. Didn't Pardew's teams use to have barbecues and that?

And when you consider Almiron, Wilson and Isak are significantly overperforming their xG you have to look at the drop off in midfield and defence. Willock is the most wasteful. What's killing us is set pieces, we're creating so many good opportunities but our defenders haven't scored a single goal from them. In fact, our only goals from defenders were Schar's thunderbastard against Forest in our first game and Trippier's freekick against Man City in our 3rd game.

Their fatigue showed against Everton and they got mullered. Our fatigue showed against Leeds and we still should have won the game. We're a nastier side than Arsenal and Brighton are. If the boys are up for it (and I'm convinced the crowd will make fucking sure they are, we can bully those lily-livered namby pamby, soft southern yella-bellied, rats with wings.

Max PTS possible NEW - 75 MNU - 75 LIV - 71 BRI - 70 If Liverpool drop points, any points, the CL place is ours. They've got tough games away at Leicester (who should be fighting for their survival), or home to Aston Villa (who are very good under Emery). We're very good at home, hopefully Longstaff will be back. Also, ironically, if Liverpool do beat Leicester, I think we'll have an easier job putting the Foxes away when we host them. Our final game is at Chelsea and Lampard is a terrible coach. If Leicester get point(s) from Liverpool tonight, the most they can end the season on is 69*. Which means we go into the game on Thursday safe in the knowledge that a win guarantees us top 4. I think it ends;

I recommend David Lee, or Callum Mawson.

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